Furthermore, in this way the player can switch between non-Perfect World official servers and the Perfect World servers. If a player chooses this way, a profile rank of Lieutenant Rank 21 or above is needed to participate the Prime Account Matchmaking. If a player does not want to complete the ID verification, full CS:GO license can still be bought with 88 CNY. However, in this way the player cannot play with non-Perfect World players or join non-Perfect World servers.

The game is free if the player signs up for a Steam account through Perfect World and complete a quick identity verification process, and the prime status will be immediately granted to account with identity verification. This method will allow users outside of China mainland to launch the game.īoth methods require a Steam account to be connected with a Perfect World Pass.

Steam users owning Global Offensive can launch the game by setting the ' -perfectworld' command line as the launch option.

It is a special version of the Steam client containing only the game.

Perfect World's ' CS:GO launcher' is recommended to be downloaded for playing.

There are two ways to launch the Perfect World Edition of CS:GO: Closed beta testing commenced on April 18, 2017, and the open beta test started on September 15, 2017.

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